Barclays had attracted a boycott by the Anti-Apartheid Movement for its investments in South Africa and was thus eager to show support for African-Caribbean causes.
[6] The newspaper's first editor, Flip Fraser,[7] led a team of young journalists who set about addressing issues of interest to Britain's African-Caribbean community.
In addition there are special supplements such as: In 2012, The Voice journalists were denied entry to the Olympic stadium despite the strong presence and interest in Black British athletes.
[22] In July 2017, The Voice hosted a special charity dinner for Usain Bolt ahead of his final appearance at the World Championships.
[25][26] In 2022, the publishing house Ebury Press announced the upcoming publication of a book entitled The Voice: 40 years of Black British Lives.
Former writers for The Voice include one-time Commission for Racial Equality chair Trevor Phillips,[29] former BBC and currently Al Jazeera newsman Rageh Omaar,[29] Martin Bashir,[11][29] authors Diran Adebayo,[11] Leone Ross, and Gemma Weekes; film maker and novelist Kolton Lee, novelist Vanessa Walters, broadcasters Jasmine Dotiwala, Henry Bonsu,[30] Dotun Adebayo, Onyekachi Wambu, Joel Kibazo,[31] educationalist Tony Sewell and publisher Steve Pope, among others.
At the launch of the New Nation newspaper, the paper's editor, Richard Adeshiyan referred to The Voice as a "doom-and-gloom sheet" which prints damaging news and images of Black people as victims.
In July 2020, educationalist Tony Sewell publicly retracted and apologized for homophobic remarks he had made in a column published in The Voice in 1990, in which he commented on the announcement by footballer Justin Fashanu that he was gay.
No other group of people are so preoccupied with making their own sexuality look dirty.On 30 July 2020, The Voice received widespread criticism for publishing an interview with rapper Wiley shortly after he posted a series of anti-Semitic comments on social media.
[34] This received widespread criticism from many Jewish people, with music producer Mark Ronson tweeting a series of comments criticising the publication.